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APRIL 11, 2024

Under the terms of the Federal Communications Commission’s license, half of that total would have to be deployed by mid-2026. Those organizations include telecommunications companies ( Verizon, Vodafone and Vodacom , NTT and Sky Perfect JSAT ) as well as NASA , DARPA and the Pentagon’s Defense Innovation Unit.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Amazon will need 3,236 satellites to fill out the full constellation in low Earth orbit, and under the terms of its license from the Federal Communications Commission, half of those satellites will have to be in orbit by mid-2026. The rest would have to be launched by 2029.

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JANUARY 26, 2021

Last year, Amazon won approval from the Federal Communications Commission to put 3,236 satellites in a different set of orbits, with at least half of them to be launched by 2026. SpaceX currently has more than 1,000 Starlink satellites in low Earth orbit and aims to boost that number to 11,000 or more in the years ahead.

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JULY 30, 2020

Under the terms of the FCC’s order, Amazon will have to launch half of its satellites by mid-2026, and the rest of them by mid-2029. The details will have to be cleared with the FCC as well as the International Telecommunication Union once they’re available. Amazon revealed its plans for Project Kuiper just last year.

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